CC Zain 'Egyptian' deck
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 11:11 pm
I don't know if this is the right folder for this particular question - it's tarot related but I'm using the cards more specifically for symbolic study and meditation.
My question - I noticed a lot of usage by various tarot students of the CC Zain White Brotherhood of Light Egyptian Tarot and admittedly I liked the design of the major arcana as well as the degree to which the images reflected those of Marseilles, Rider-Waite, BOTA, etc. - I already have the Universal Waite and the Thoth so I decided to get something with a different flavor.
What I noticed real quickly; there's something very different about the Hebrew letter allocations - pretty much no relation to Sefir Yetzirah with the letters and the elements/planets/zodiac. The colors that were used in the renovated deck were unrelated to the Golden dawn scales and didn't follow any sort of schema when I arranged either the planets or the signs of the zodiac in any way I could come up with.The thing he did consistently at least with the minor arcana was kept the signs related to each element together albeit he decided to make swords earth and coins air (YHHV I suppose). The pips (1-10) of each minor suite match the color, per key, of the first ten of the major arcana however when you try to figure out what he'd be doing with a base ten you realize that none of the attributions of the first ten cards have congruency with sephira (it would be fair if these were all planets but it's a mixed blend of planets and signs).
Admittedly I don't know a whole lot about the Church of Light but as far as I can tell - if they take Zain's deck seriously - have a very different way of doing their pathworking and alchemy than anything Golden Dawn related.
Has anyone else looked at this deck before and, if so, were you able to make any Qabalistic sense of it?
My question - I noticed a lot of usage by various tarot students of the CC Zain White Brotherhood of Light Egyptian Tarot and admittedly I liked the design of the major arcana as well as the degree to which the images reflected those of Marseilles, Rider-Waite, BOTA, etc. - I already have the Universal Waite and the Thoth so I decided to get something with a different flavor.
What I noticed real quickly; there's something very different about the Hebrew letter allocations - pretty much no relation to Sefir Yetzirah with the letters and the elements/planets/zodiac. The colors that were used in the renovated deck were unrelated to the Golden dawn scales and didn't follow any sort of schema when I arranged either the planets or the signs of the zodiac in any way I could come up with.The thing he did consistently at least with the minor arcana was kept the signs related to each element together albeit he decided to make swords earth and coins air (YHHV I suppose). The pips (1-10) of each minor suite match the color, per key, of the first ten of the major arcana however when you try to figure out what he'd be doing with a base ten you realize that none of the attributions of the first ten cards have congruency with sephira (it would be fair if these were all planets but it's a mixed blend of planets and signs).
Admittedly I don't know a whole lot about the Church of Light but as far as I can tell - if they take Zain's deck seriously - have a very different way of doing their pathworking and alchemy than anything Golden Dawn related.
Has anyone else looked at this deck before and, if so, were you able to make any Qabalistic sense of it?